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Design deals for the week Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:56 AM PST Every week, we'll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don't miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. Divine Elemente (exclusive deal) Convert your PSDs to WordPress themes at blazing speed with this amazing Photoshop plugin. $66 instead of $99 – Get it now (use the following code to get the discount: DD30PW) Supernett font family This unique hand-drawn Sans-Serif font is mega packed with options to keep your content moving. Featuring 6 different styles, Supernett includes 4,700 different glyphs for each style! $14 instead of $59 – Get it now! The premium design library Whether you're a designer or developer, these vector sets, Photoshop add-ons, texture packs, and more will save you hours of work over a lifetime of use – so the bundle essentially pays for itself. $49 instead of $3’917 – Get it now! The post Design deals for the week appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

10 amazing examples of product packaging design Posted: 06 Mar 2014 09:44 PM PST You probably never think of product packaging design as art, and you might be wrong to think that way. The packages in this post will prove you than there is much more to packaging than just wrapping a product in some cardboard. 1. Shoelace box For Görtz shoes, German creative agency Thjnk extended shoe laces to give the impression that you are holding the shoes with it. 2. Nike Air Scholz & friends, another German agency, outdid itself with this great product packaging design for Nike. What better way to protect your Nike Air than with… air? This product allows the clients to see the product and shows why the product is great, amazing! 3. Origami tea bags More than the packaging, it’s the product itself that has a great design here. These tea bags are designed to look like birds, it will impress your guests for sure. It was created by Nathalia Ponomareva, a Russian designer. 4. Thelma’s product packaging design The best packaging you could dream of for a warm cookies delivery company. For their client Thelma’s, creative agency Saturday Mfg did these amazing packages with a stove as part of the global branding. 5. Sony Walkman Do you claim that your product is waterproof? What better proof of concept than packaging it in water? That’s exactly what Sony did for its walkman, and the result is spectacular. Via Engadget. 6. H&M gift package A concept packaging by Swedish student Linn Gustafsson. This would be an ideal gift packaging for H&M. 7. Harem Sultan wine packaging Wine labels turned into dresses for bottles. A project created for duty free shops in Turkish airports. A great creation by TBWA Istanbul. 8. Hexagon honey A great product packaging design that reminds us where honey comes from. The made by bees vertical label is also a very nice touch. Via Lovely Package. 9. Smirnoff Caipiroska A clever peelable bottle, a subtle way to hint that the drink may be a bit fruity. Designed by JWT Brasil. 10. Native Focus map Some student work that really impressed me. These gorgous city maps packages contain some even more beautiful city maps. Via The Dieline. The post 10 amazing examples of product packaging design appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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Someone Always Profits From Chaos

Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back, Putin Is Not Crazy, The Conservative Alternative To The Slutty Girl Scouts, Why Hollywood Thinks Atheism Is Bad for Business, The Frank Underwood Of Venezuela The Daily Digg Friday, March 7, 2014 GET YOUR ASS TO MARS! Meet The People Who Want To Go To Mars And Never Come Back digg.com Two-hundred thousand people applied to participate in a project called Mars One. It's a private enterprise to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars and film a reality show along the way. The thing is, right now the technology can only get them there. FRUSTRATING, UNPREDICTABLE AND SHIRTLESS Putin Is Not Crazy news.yahoo.com President Obama has called Vladimir Putin "the bored kid in the back of the classroom." Hillary Clinton compared him to Hitler. And George W. Bush complained that debating policy with him was "like arguing with an eighth grader with his facts wrong." But he's not crazy. PLAN B FOR BADGES The Conservative Alternative To The Slutty Girl Scouts jezebel.com Want your daughter to learn all about camping, sewing and car repair, but with a heaping helping of Jesus? You could try to find a local Girl Scout troop with an especially Bible-thumping troop leader. Or you could just skip straight to the American Heritage Girls, conservative Christianity's very own copycat. PIETY IS PROFITABLE Why Hollywood Thinks Atheism Is Bad for Business newyorker.com Matthew McConaughey's Oscar speech is far from the only sign that God is, in fact, alive and well in Hollywood. SOMEONE ALWAYS PROFITS FROM CHAOS The Frank Underwood Of Venezuela theatlantic.com Behind the daily scenes of anti-government protests, another power struggle is underway. Read more on Digg.com → KIEV WASN'T REBUILT IN A DAY A woman walks past barricades set up by anti-Yanukovich protestors at Kiev's Independence Square, in Ukraine. Credit: AP/Emilio Morenatti Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Featured designer: Martin Venezky Posted: 06 Mar 2014 11:27 AM PST Martin Venezky is a graphic designer that enjoys getting out of the grid, and it’s very good that way. The post Featured designer: Martin Venezky appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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Why Is American Internet So Slow?

9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit, Russia Today Anchor Quits On-Air Over Putin Whitewashing, Shut Your Pie Hole With Every Kind Of Food, Why Is American Internet So Slow?, Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours A Day, In A Six-By-Eight-Foot Box The Daily Digg Thursday, March 6, 2014 GRAB SOME COFFEE FIRST 9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit motherjones.com Even if you're not among the 63 percent of Americans who drink coffee every day, caffeine is hard to avoid. But despite its pervasiveness, we still understand little about the stuff. MAD AS HELL Russia Today Anchor Quits On-Air Over Putin Whitewashing digg.com American anchor, Liz Wahl, quit her job at Russia Today live on-air over the network's Russian funding and resulting pro-Putin bias. APPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Shut Your Pie Hole With Every Kind Of Food eat24.com Too hangry to talk on the phone? That's basically us every day. Thankfully with Eat24 you can stuff yourself without flipping out over having to repeat your address a dozen times. EXCEPTIONALLY ANNOYING Why Is American Internet So Slow? theweek.com The country that literally invented the Internet is now behind Estonia in terms of download speeds. BOXED IN Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours A Day, In A Six-By-Eight-Foot Box medium.com Only the U.S., Somalia and South Sudan have declined to ratify the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits juvenile solitary confinement as a matter of international law. Read more on Digg.com → SAVE IT FOR LEO A person holds a mock Oscar statue as Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square at the Vatican prior to the start of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Freebies wednesday Posted: 05 Mar 2014 11:55 AM PST Every wednesday, we share a few freebies that'll make your designer toolbox a bit more useful. Vector sports balls A great selection of vector illustrations in this set of detailed sports balls. Transform each 2.0 Transform Each is a script that gives ability to make individual transformations with a group of layers. Light UI kit A free light and clean UI kit designed by Alex Ivanov and available for free to download in PSD format.  Business card mockup Business card mockups with a resolution of 1920×1080 and smart objects edition. Flat icons set 75 flat icons, PSD & AI included in zip.   The post Freebies wednesday appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin

The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin, The Ten Habits Of Highly Unflabby People, The DIY Engineer Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Basement, A Map Of China, By Stereotype, What Does The Shape And Color Of Your Poop Mean? The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 5, 2014 IT'S OVER The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin nymag.com Proselytizing is a psychologically normal response for prophetic groups whose central predictions fail to come true. And today, you can see something similar going on with another group of failing zealots. I'm talking about the cult of Bitcoin. STAND UP The Ten Habits Of Highly Unflabby People gq.com So you want to keep an eye on the old waistline, but you hate diets. Join the club. Rather than give you recipes for "yummy" quinoa-kelp granola, we suggest following these simple rules, rituals, and metabolic sleights of hand. DISRUPTING NUCLEAR ENERGY The DIY Engineer Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Basement digg.com Doug Coulter used to build signal processing and radio gadgets for our favorite three-lettered intelligence agencies, but for the past decade or so, Doug's chosen to explore his engineering interests in the isolated backwoods of Virginia. 'EATS MONKEYS' A Map Of China, By Stereotype foreignpolicy.com Auto-complete results by the country's largest search engine shed light on how Chinese view one another. PANTONE FOR POOP What Does The Shape And Color Of Your Poop Mean? lifehacker.com The color of your poop does mean something, but often times it has more to do with what you eat than what horrible things could be happening in your body. Read more on Digg.com → TOP SELFIE A Royal Danish Air Force F-16 pilot snaps a selfie while firing an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missile. Credit: Royal Danish Air Force Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Featured illustrator: Steve Simpson Posted: 04 Mar 2014 11:25 AM PST With over 30 years experience, Steve Simpson‘s whimsical approach to his work has earned him top international awards for illustration, packaging design and his art for children's books. Steve has regularly had work exhibited in London, LA & New York along with many publications across the world. The post Featured illustrator: Steve Simpson appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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